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      Yeah the only issue here is “Caucasians” is roughly similar in emotional weight to “native Americans.”

      Shirt should say like, “crackers” or something

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        Cracker isn’t an epithet that native Americans have ever used though.

        Paleface would be the matching slur to redskin.

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          You would be if they had stolen your home and pranced around in a caricature costume of you through the stadium they built after bulldozing your land

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            Yes, but that’s the point. They didn’t do that to white people, so white people are in no position to be offended. Including me. Which is why I’m not only not offended, but find that highly appropriate.

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              What is happening when white people are like “I’m not offended by this” is to minimize the offense that native Americans feel about the same thing.

              As if to say “I’m not offended, why are they?”

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          Me either, but it’s actually meant to be offensive whereas Caucasians is just a classification.

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      The problem with the football teams is that usually the name of team is the name of a group of ppl that was almost exterminated and their descendants still pay the price and nobody cares while their name is used as something cool. Just using the name should not be that offensive.

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        Except redskins is offensive. It’s not the name of a group of people, it’s an epithet describing them.

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            Were you going to show us this poll or were you just going to expect us to believe that quote of yours isn’t one you just made up?

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              I like to omit the source sometimes just to draw out lazy comments like yours. It really shows that you’re not that interested but just want to argue. It’s the title of an article from one of the most prominent newspapers out there, it’d be the first result if you simply pasted it in Google, but rather than save yourself the embarrassment, you chose this route.

              Swing and a miss.

              The article is even better than the title.

              Among the Native Americans reached over a five-month period ending in April, more than 7 in 10 said they did not feel the word “Redskin” was disrespectful to Indians. An even higher number — 8 in 10 — said they would not be offended if a non-native called them that name.

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    I’m all for it. I want the mascot to be just a normal guy named “Steve.” It’s just some white guy in a cardigan. His catch phrase is “Hi, I’m Steve, nice to meet you.”

    When the players score a touchdown, the fans all chant “Hi, I’m Steve.” The customary celebration is for the player to mime a normal handshake.

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    Can we do this? I want this team. It’s gotta be full of burly black guys though. They’re clearly better at football. I would start watching football.

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        Yeah, that was my thought too.

        There are dumb right wingers who would wear it “see theres nothing offensive about this” as opposed to “See how fucking weird this is”

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    Why is caucasian used to refer to the white race, isnt that for georgians or something?

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      Misrepresenting the target group is just an added bonus. It’s like referring to all indigenous people as “indians” - even if they were from India (which they’re not), it’s just taking a blanket term and making them all seem like they’re the same. At least that’s why it’s even funnier in this context.

      But generally speaking, when people unironically use the term to refer to all whites, well, that just shows that they don’t really understand the meaning of the term they are using.